[LINK] Naked Tuesday Internet Censorship Protest

Stilgherrian stil at stilgherrian.com
Thu Jan 7 10:29:25 AEDT 2010


On 07/01/2010, at 8:50 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Perhaps we need something like Computers Off's "Naked Tuesdays" as a
> light-hearted protest against Internet censorship:
> 
> "In an attempt to “help save the environment” the office manager has 
> decided that during every Tuesday of summer, the office is to go without 
> air-conditioning - therefore adopting the policy of “Naked Tuesday”...."
> <http://www.computersoff.org/display.asp?id=76>.
> 
> Protesters would threaten to surf the Internet in the
> nude and thus destroy civilisation. ;-)

This would play perfectly into the hand of the pro-filter types who wish to portray those fighting the filter as some sort of weird pro-porn extreme libertarians. Perhaps a bit of fun for those involved, but extremely counter-productive.

"How To Defeat Labor’s Internet Censorship: A Liberal Hack’s Perspective" outlines a MUC better strategy.
http://insidethemindoftim.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/how-to-defeat-labors-internet-censorship-a-liberal-hacks-perspective/
or for dumb email clients
http://is.gd/5Pvv7

Stil


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